The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-08

breaking open post Office box and getting
letters therefrom.
Newman Herald A duertiser.: Mr.. P-t-r
M-r-p-y went on a iaunt TO Salt Springs
few DAYS ago. and while guest at the
Sweetwater Park hotel a reception was ten
dered Gov. Gordon. Among other engaging
features of the ievee and one that Interested
him very much, was the shameless oscUia-
tory liberties that the Governor took with
the young ladies present. tie kissed every
one that came in his way, and out OF a pos
sible seventy-five P-t-r is certain that not
more than half a dozen escaped. While
talking TO his best girl, in that earnest, in
genious manner which he knows so well
how to assume at a summer resort, the
Governor came forward and imprinted
a resounding smack upon the rosy lips of
the fair Amelia. The impudence OF the act,
| and the tantallZlng serenity with which his
charmer emerged from the ordeal, was
more than P-t-r could stand. He tainted,
| Anxious friends gathered around and finally
| succeeded in restoring him to consciousness,
though he is yet feeble from the effects of
his prOstratioD. P-t-r says he was a stall
| wart Gordon man in the last campaign, and
gave him "A vote when votes were scarce;
but he hereby warns the Governor that if
he ever trifles with his feelings in like man
| ner again he will lose a valuable constituent.
Tallapoosa Journal: Mr.. Spencer, man.
| dyer of the TallapooSa Land, Mining and
| Manufacturing Company has just finished
a map in colors, showing the different in
vestments in mineral lands and the location
of the important mineral veins in the
| vicinity of Talapoosa A radius of six
miles from the centre of the town shows in
vestments by the following companies: The
| Burke syndicate-gold; Mobile syndi-
| cate-Sold Cincinnati syndicate
| gold; Birmingham iron syndicate;
Birmingham gold syndicate; East Ala
bama Gold Dredging Company
| gold Tallapoosa Land, Mining and Man
ufacturing Company. In acreage the Tai
lapoosa Land, Mining and Manufacturing
| Company comes first, with 1000 acres; the
| Burke syndicate next, with Z, 800 acres; the
| Mobile with 500 acres; the Cincinnati, with
| 500 acres and the East Alabama Gold
Mining and Dredging Company, with the
Tallapoosa river bottoms The important
minerals, as shown on this map, are gold,
| silver, copper, marble. brown hematite, Bes-
senler ore and manganese and are indicated
| by different colors The less important miner
ais on this lead are rhodonite, mica, asbestos,
| graphite, corundum, tale, tripoi slate,
| kaolins, fire-clays, etc. The map also shows
the exact direction or the lead, which is, In
| the main, northeast and southwest, the
| numbers and sections Of the lots, railroads
| built and surveyed, the location of the pres
emit town of Tailapoosa, and the 2,400 acres
of town lands about it which the company
owns
Quitman Free Press: Sheriff Mcneil has
received a letter from w. d. Atkinson, a
lawyer of Evergreen, Ala, asking for in
formation about James A. Daw and Mrs
Catharine Page, of that place They were
both married and ran away and left their
families about May Is and came to this
place where they spent month. They
M Ind
rooms at Mr.. James Hills boarding
house near the depot. They were quiet
well-behaved couple while here, passed
off as consistent members of the Baptist
church, and regularly attended that place
of worship. No one suspected that they
were what they were, and they made good
impression on quite number of people here
The letter to Sheriff Mcneil described Daw
as a man about Is years old, light moustache
and hair, blue eyes, very bow-legged and
weight about 1870 or 1856 pounds The
woman was described as about SO years old,
not tall but thick, heavy set. pale COM
plaxion, blue eyes, rather light hair and in
ordinately addicted to the use of snuff. To
quote from the letter, in speaking of Mrs
Page, it said ''she had run away with this
trifiing puppy and has left behind her,
daughter about Is years old, who has the
sympathy of every one in this community
The letter also says "Daw has left a
family here who are on starva-
ton" Daw was a deputy sheriff
in Alabama and was suspected Of taking a
lot of merchandise with him which was left
in his charge by the Sheriff The couple
evidently run short of funds while here for
they were forced to pawn bed from which
they realized S12. They left here after a
stay of about a month and went to Column
bus, where they probably are now, as a let
ter was received here from Columbus writ
ten by Mrs. Pageon Aug. /, stating that
they were in Columbus and that "her
brother" had been sick. The couple have
both been indicted at Evergreen on the
charge of adultery and are badly wanted at
that place.
Tallapoosa Journal. As Andrew Farmer,
Esq, was passing along lovely and Sc
cluded path, which runs along the western
bank of the Tallapoosa river, he saw near
large pine tree fresh upturned earth. 1t
attracted his attention. 1t had evidently
been done the night before. On examining
the surroundings, he saw the tracks of a
man and woman He Immediately went
for some of his neighbors, and was soon
joined by Messrs Sewell, Yancey and Little
The four were soon at the big pine tree
which, by the way, is one of the largest in
the county. They, examined the
moved earth. This tree, a monster
in size, stands near the Savage Bluff, which
forces the river to make its sudden bend
from west to south, forming that semi-cir-
Gle on the Mcbride place, on which an old
Indian village used to stand. On one side
the tree was blazed for seven feet or more,
on the other two notches were made. All
of it had the appearance of having been
done fifty years at least. After these obser-
vations the Investigators then went carefully
to work to remove the fresh earth After
going down two feet or more they found
where a vessel ten inches in diameter
and two feet high, had evidently rested for
many years. But it was gone. Many are
the surmises as TO what ii contained Many
believe that some descendant or the Murreil
clan came to secure booty hidden there
Others think that tho PONY Club" dug the
hole, buried the treasure and blazed and
notched the tree Some think that luckles
party from DeSoto's band while prospecting
along the Golden river, were hard pressed
by Indians, and hid their gold there. But
a majority believe that some rich
Cherokee, when forced to leave the beautiful
land of the Tallapoosa, carefully hid away
his gold, and marked the tree, and that the
old Indian doctor and his wife, spent several
weeks at Tallapoosa, came TO secure the
gold These old Indians while here, said
many strange things about the wonderful
wealth of this region, among Others, that
''the white man had driven their fathers
from this beautiful land but the white man